Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b1edb84584ccb70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2018-12-14 21:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: FrameMaker 7.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows); modified using iText® 5.5.4 ©2000-2014 iText Group NV (AGPL-version))
MD5: e5e109740b69f64254979f63db0c2b5f SHA-1: 63ff7016f38668f4c792e62e0e3f402a8699f0c0 SHA-256: 6b1edb84584ccb700bc4036bf6e052be6c86a3e44c353ccc34355e5f31fd1903
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged the document as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests a potential attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content, possibly via a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8738

Heuristics 2

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
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